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Draft from Khachigian RE: George McGovern and the Working Man. 3 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], 8/8/1972
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48
37
8/8/1972
Campaign
Other Document
Draft from Khachigian RE: George
McGovern and the Working Man. 3 pgs.
48
37
8/1/1972
Campaign
Letter
From McGover to Reaugh RE: Affirmation
of Position on Homosexuals. 1 pg.
48
37
8/7/1972
Campaign
Other Document
Note RE: Letter to National Coalition of
Gay Organizations and confirmation phone
numbers. 5 pgs.
Wednesday, June 03, 2015
Page 1 of 1
draft - 8/8/72
Khachigian
GEORGE MC GOVERN AND THE WORKING MAN
The only enemy the American worker has in this election year
is George S. McGovern. While Senator McGovern spreads the
grossest of distortions about President Nixon he simultaneously covers
up a record of his own which is poison to every working man and his
family in the country.
Senator McGovern has introduced legislation in Congress to provide
a guaranteed annual income of $6500 in welfare money to every family
in the United States. This legislation, according to a study by the
Senate Finance Committee would place 104 million Americans on the
welfare rolls at a staggering tax rise of $72 billion. We know who will
pay the bill -- the American worker.
Senator McGovern has proposed that every man, woman, and child
in the country, regardless of need, be given a $1000 bill. No one would
be required to work -- that is, no one but the hard-pressed working man who
will be asked to pay higher and higher taxes to finance this hare-brained
giveaway program. This plan, according to the Senate Finance Committee
could put 111 million Americans on welfare.
If people want higher taxes, they can vote for George McGovern
and his $1000 no-work, hand-out schemes. If people want their $750
per person tax exemption wiped away, as McGovern has proposed, they
can vote for him. If the working man wants to have his back broken to
make welfare a way of life, he should vote for Senator McGovern.
Page 2
And while George McGovern sings the praises of the American
worker, he expouses extreme causes which amount to a slap in the
face for the average American.
While our sons went off to war to fulfill their obligation, thousands
of others became draft dodgers, escaping to foreign countries. Now,
George McGovern promises amnesty to draft evaders, saying to them:
"Come home with no penalty; all is forgiven." Is this what he means
by saying he is the friend of the average American?
While George McGovern asks millions of Americans to have their
children bussed miles away to achieve an artificial racial balance,
he can afford to pay $1400 a year to have his child sent to a nearly
all-white school.
George McGovern supports the Ameri can working man 1000%. He
supports us so hard, he is going to raise our taxes, put more of our
fellow citizens on welfare, bus our children, and then humiliate America
before the eyes of the world while "begging" before our enemy.
Did the American working man labor and sweat through the
generations for this kind of nonsense? Did the American labor movement
fight for decades to have one man break the economy of our country with
fuzzy welfare schemes? Did we go to war and send our sons and grandsons
to Vietnam to see a president prepared to crawl to the enemy without
any guarantees that our POW's and those missing in action would be
accounted for?
Page 3
We say "No thanks" to Liquine McGovern. Let him continue to
get endorsements from Jer and Abby Hoffman. But he is
not going to get our support and the support of millions of other
Americans who have had it with the elite cadre which marches to the
tune of Senator McGovern's theme song for radicals.
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August 1, 1972
Dear Mr. Reaugh:
I wish to reaffirm the public statement I made on February 12
in which I outlined my position on the civil and legal rights
of homosexuals. That statement included the following six
points:
1. Sexual orientation or preference should cease to be a
criterion for employment by all public and governmental
agencies, in work under Federal contract, for service in
in the United States armed forces, and for licensing
government regulated occupations and professions.
2. Sexual orientation should cease to be a criterion for
immigration into the United States.
3. Government and private investigatory agencies should cease
to collect data on the sexual preferences of individuals.
4. Sexual orientation should cease to be a criterion for
obtaining housing, insurance or bonding.
5.
Individuals previously given less than honorable military
discharges solely for sexual relations between consenting
adults, or for allegations relating to sexual orientation,
should have the character of those discharges changed to
honorable.
6.
Federal sponsorship of educational programs which will
foster further understanding of both professional people
and the general public on these issues.
1 would be grateful if you would share my views on this matter
with your friends and associates.
Sincerely yours,
George McGovern
Mr. Ernest 0. Reaugh
17A OLd Hickory Drive
Albany, New York 12214
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